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Boredroom Breakouts A game-changing solution for employee engagement and team development!

In today's fast-paced business landscape, team engagement and soft skill development are paramount for success. Let adventure become your catalyst for growth--the path to success lies in your team embracing the exhilarating unknown! Discover the game-changing solution for employee development with our exciting adventure-based learning experiences as a powerful way to develop crucial soft skills that empower and engage your team in a real way. Our unique immersive experiences combine scientific-based curriculum with exciting challenges that demand collaboration, communication, and problem-solving. Your team will emerge with essential soft skills like creativity, adaptability, and leadership, honed through overcoming obstacles and navigating uncertainty. Confronting physical and mental challenges during these adventures instills resilience and a re-framed response to adversity, empowering your team to embrace risk-taking and view failures as valuable learning opportunities. Our adventure-based learning offers a transformative approach to personal and professional growth, equipping your participants with the confidence and capabilities to thrive in ever-changing and demanding environments. These BREAKOUTS go beyond adventure; they are the carefully crafted accelerators that reshape mindsets, foster resilience, and cultivate a unified force that propels businesses to conquer uncharted territories with unwavering determination. Join us on an extraordinary journey to unlock your team's full potential and excel like never before! Plan an experience that gives you a real return on investment at: www.boredroombreakouts.com

09/30/2026

It’s not that far. It’s not that hard. It’s not more than you can handle. Positive affirmations are great sometimes, but the reality is that life is hard. Sometimes the right move isn’t doubling down, it’s resting. Sometimes it means letting go. Sometimes it means changing direction. Most people don’t know how TO think or how their brains work and it keeps you stuck overthinking, anxious, exhausted, and struggling to have energy for the things you really want to do. Thats why Responsive Intelligence is so important. Clarity for better, faster decisions. More energy for the important things in life, and confidence as you navigate an increasingly complex world. We work with leaders and teams and use experiences (like this… or more tame, like improv or art) to do it. Because learning should be fun and effective. And hey… wherever you’re going, it’s not that far 😉

08/26/2026

There are few that loved every person as much as Dolly. And there are few people that loved back as much as Dolly was. Rest in peace, angel. And enjoy this remake to Islands in the Stream that my (Sarah’s) husband sang on a particularly long mountain hike in Hawaii in 2023 🤣🤗 IYKYK.

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The SmartGrowth CFO team is truly everything you could want- clever, funny, kind and willing to roll up their sleeves to...
08/21/2026

The SmartGrowth CFO team is truly everything you could want- clever, funny, kind and willing to roll up their sleeves to figure things out. It was such a joy to have them visit our PowerUp team training space in Minneapolis.

We are thankful they chose us for their offsite & team development, but why would businesses choose them?

SmartGrowth CFO provides bookkeeping, accounting, fractional CFO services, and board training to help businesses and nonprofits gain financial clarity, strengthen their organizations, and grow with confidence. To learn more or explore how SmartGrowth CFO can support your organization, reach out to us at [email protected]!

03/31/2026

Most leaders don’t know that the people there leading has 2 different “brains”.

The Thinking Brain — the one that absorbs frameworks, sets intentions, and knows exactly what good looks like — has been trained endlessly. It knows what to do.

The Responsive Brain is the one that actually takes over under pressure. It doesn’t respond to frameworks. It doesn’t consult the plan. It responds to experience.

That gap between what your team knows and what your team does isn’t a culture problem. It’s a biological default. And it’s been running your team but nobody is addressing this system… until now!

I’ve spent years building a methodology that works with biology instead of fighting against it.

I built a tool that I am SO proud of that we are ready to put in front of real teams. This tool is more than a diagnostic; it analyzes symptoms, behaviors, and patterns to identify the behavioral response defaults driving them.

I’m looking for 5–10 leaders who want to beta test the Team Operating System Profile. This is a tool that maps your team’s biological defaults and gives every team member a private individual pattern profile to use for their own personal growth.

What you get:
-Your team’s collective operating pattern (the system underneath the symptoms)
-Every team member’s individual default pattern on your team
-A private aggregate report delivered directly to you (the leader)
-A real conversation about what it means, how to train your team to work better, faster, and more dynamically together

No cost. No pitch. Just data and a genuine conversation about what’s driving your team’s gaps.

If you lead a team and you’re tired of knowing what’s wrong without having a system to address it, this is a great place to start.

The biology is just the mechanism. Your people are the solution 🫶🏽

Apply now- link in bio!

Many teams are “fine”. Nice people. They show up. Work gets done. But there’s a slow drip...Small disconnects. Avoided t...
03/17/2026

Many teams are “fine”. Nice people. They show up. Work gets done. But there’s a slow drip...

Small disconnects. Avoided tensions. Decisions that take forever. Ideas that don’t surface. The same meetings over and over. Responsibility that weighs on you. Innovation that stalled somewhere along the way.

It’s so gradual it feels normal. And it’s common. But normal isn’t what your team is capable of. There is so much talent that gets trapped within teams because of these behavior drips.

Leaders try to support growth, but they ultimately solve for symptoms:
-“Let’s improve communication skills”
-“We need teach conflict resolution”
-“Let’s hire someone to help with change management.”

These help temporarily. But they don’t stop the leak and behavior doesn’t change.

Because the symptoms aren’t the problem. They’re signals.

When sustained pressure—uncertainty, risk, social exposure—hits a team, something biological happens. People shift into protective mode. They hold back ideas (protecting belonging). They avoid risk (protecting credibility). They resist collaboration (protecting autonomy).

Individually, these make sense. Collectively, they create the slow drip you’re feeling. Teams will almost *always* follow these primal, biological default patterns.

Most development misses this entirely. It treats symptoms without addressing the source: the collective operating system that defaults to protection instead of performance.

Real change requires understanding what’s actually driving the patterns.
-How your brain defaults under pressure.
-Why your team’s protective behaviors emerged.
-And how to train people to perform together, no matter what the conditions may be.

That’s the difference between treating symptoms and solving the problem.

What slow drip patterns do you see most in teams? Drop a comment—I’d love to hear what you’re seeing!

P.S. Want to experience this before your team does? Join us for Pressure-Proof Leadership: Flying Trapeze on April 23rd: link in bio!

03/13/2026

Here are three signs for the women that belong with me in Colorado this fall for my Boot Camp: a woman’s courageous rise.
1. You’re too busy. Busyness is the enemy of strategic power. It’s easy to default to this because it makes us feel like we are adding value, helping others, and we genuinely enjoy solving problems. Taking time can seem counterproductive for someone that’s too busy, but this is the kind of trip that helps you live in more alignment in a sustainable way. I’m not going to tell you what to do(I’ll teach you how your brain works and why you make the choices you do). YOU are going to go on a journey that reveals where your next shift is for growth.
2. You’ve never done anything like this before and you’re probably scared too if you’re being honest with yourself. Fear and intuition can be confused very easily and I’ve seen too many women. Let fear become their limits and keep them living in just a fraction of the potential that they have.
3. You’re exhausted. Again, quite counterintuitive to sign up for a trip like THIS but you are your greatest source of power and so often we get exhausted when we are disconnected from ourselves. Being intentional about this and connecting with not just yourself but other ferocious amazing women are the least people feeling completely re-energized. It beats a trip to the beach or spot any day and leaves you with tools that you get to bring back to your life and to work that will guide you into your most aligned life.

If this sparked anything inside of you check out the link in the comments or in the bio. Tag or send this to someone that needs this trip!

Colorado | Sept 27th -Oct 1

On International Women’s Day, I ask… what is a “woman”? There is a lot of debate around this right now.Some think that a...
03/08/2026

On International Women’s Day, I ask… what is a “woman”? There is a lot of debate around this right now.

Some think that a “woman” should be:
-obedient
-supportive
-feminine
-quiet

Others think she should be:
-a certain size
-pretty
-fashionable
-polished

Others think she should:
-become a mother
-be the peacemaker
-do it all
-ask for permission

Constant boxes the want to fit us into and sweeping beliefs that barely scratch the surface of the vibrant, dynamic women that shape the world.

The second a woman becomes:
-powerful
-challenging
-discerning
-an advocate

Many get uncomfortable, and try to place their expectations of smallness upon us. Try to chastise us and remind us of what they think we should be. Or maybe they re-label us and call us:
-manipulative
-disruptive
-evil
-crazy
-failures

Here’s the thing: women are terrifyingly powerful. And the thing about being pushed down every time we pop back up? Well those are reps, making our muscles stronger. Comfort breeds weakness, but women have been uncomfortable their own skin for so long that there’s no danger of weakness.

What is a woman unfiltered?
-A woman is at the center of all creation.
-A woman is an ultimate strategist.
-A woman is a justice seeker. A warrior.
-A woman is an intuitive. A truth teller.
-A woman is wisdom, grace, and dignity.

She is humor and joy and sorrow and pain.

She is complex and because of the range of things she sees feels, she is holds dynamic potential.

So if you want a woman that fits in a small box, or if you’re a woman who thinks she needs to stay in a small box, you’re missing out on the incredible power that lies within.

There’s no wrong way to be a “woman”. Theres no way to define a woman.

There are ways try to cage her, to tame her, to break her. But remember, every time you do, you just make her stronger.

Happy International Woman’s Day to my sisters around the world. Today I celebrate you, your wisdom, your power, your presence, your dynamic brilliance, your contributions, and the depth of love for those around you.

Most people think team-limiting pressure comes from deadlines, competition, or market conditions. But much of the pressu...
03/05/2026

Most people think team-limiting pressure comes from deadlines, competition, or market conditions. But much of the pressure actually comes from inside the team itself.

Much of the pressure inside organizations shows up within teams as people debate strategy, defend priorities, weigh risk through their own lenses, manage expectations across the group, and push decisions forward without risking their credibility.

Default behaviors begin to shift from contribution to self-protection. Competition starts to dominate collaboration. Decisions get delayed as uncertainty threatens the possibility of success. Work becomes siloed and tightly controlled. Innovation stalls and momentum begins to drain from the team. Occasionally someone jumps in with individual heroics that move the needle forward, but most responsibility settles onto the same few people who slowly burn out.

On the surface, it can look responsible. High standards. Careful planning. Strong individual performance.

But consistent growth slows.

The collective power of the team remains underutilized.

Most leadership development still focuses on strengthening individual capabilities. But organizational performance isn’t sustained at the individual level — it’s sustained at the team level as organizations face challenges that no single person can solve.

When pressure rises, success depends on how well teams understand the protective patterns that emerge and shift them into shared ownership and coordinated action.

Pressure-proof teams aren’t the ones with the least pressure. They’re the ones that learn how to use it. When teams understand how pressure shapes behavior, they can shift from individual heroics to shared ownership and unlock the collective capability that was there all along.

Many teams recognize these patterns immediately once they’re named.

I’m hosting a webinar on March 11 to explore how pressure reshapes team performance and what leaders can do to help their teams shift from protection to collaboration.

Register on link in bio!

02/25/2026

Personal brain failure moment. Most of the time we don’t get the gift of catching ourselves (or others catching us) and our brains keep building on false information. This time, it was *pretty obvious* and I had to laugh at myself. Enjoy behind the scenes story time with Sarah!

02/20/2026

Experiences are so powerful when they’re used intentionally. We have spent the last 10 years leading and learning from groups to understand how pressure changes the way people think, decide, and collaborate. Then, we recreated the process and applied it to training sessions, workshops, and retreats where we teach people how to think… and how THEY think, and not what to think, so teams can move past all the bs that gets in the way of momentum.

We are one of a kind, just like you!✨

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